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6 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
value—including one on Fruit Growing in Wisconsin, by 
J. C. Plumb, Esq., and one on Grape Culture, by P. 
Kelil, Esq.,—have been necessarily postponed, in their 
publication, until the issue of the next volume. The 
interesting Address on Agricultural Education, delivered 
at Madison, by Chancellor Barnard, during the week of 
the fair of 1858, is also omitted because of a lack of time 
on the part of the author, to prepare it for publication. 
In explanation of the non-appearance of the agricul¬ 
tural statistics, reported by the Secretary of State fo.x 
1858-9, it is proper to state, that a paper thereon, from 
one of the Ex-Presidents of the Society, w r as confidently 
expected up to so late a period in the printing of the 
work, that we were unable to prepare a worthy substitute, 
without delaying the press. 
In relation to the mechanical execution of this volume, 
we have pleasure in being able to say, that it compares 
favorably with works of a similar character published in 
even the older States. In the midst of the pressing de¬ 
mands of a large amount of State work, the efficient 
gentlemen who have had the printing of the Transactions 
in charge, have so faithfully and promptly fulfilled the 
obligations assumed, that we are enabled, thus early, to 
send forth a work of which the Society may justly be 
proud. 
J. W. H. 
State Agricultubal Rooms, 
Madison , March 29, 1860. 
